Oracle Linux 5 : Critical: / krb5 (ELSA-2008-0164)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 67664

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0164 advisory.

[1.6.1-17.el5_1.1]
- add preliminary patch to fix use of uninitialized pointer / double-free in KDC (CVE-2008-0062,CVE-2008-0063) (#432620, #432621)
- add backported patch to fix use-after-free in libgssapi_krb5 (CVE-2007-5901) (#415321)
- add backported patch to fix double-free in libgssapi_krb5 (CVE-2007-5971) (#415351)
- add preliminary patch to fix incorrect handling of high-numbered descriptors in the RPC library (CVE-2008-0947) (#433596)
- fix storage of delegated krb5 credentials when they've been wrapped up in spnego (#436460)
- return a delegated credential handle even if the application didn't pass a location to store the flags which would be used to indicate that credentials were delegated (#436465)
- add patch to fall back to TCP kpasswd servers for kdc-unreachable, can't-resolve-server, and response-too-big errors (#436467)
- use the right sequence numbers when generating password-set/change requests for kpasswd servers after the first one (#436468)
- backport from 1.6.3 to initialize a library-allocated get_init_creds_opt structure the same way we would one which was allocated by the calling application, to restore kinit's traditional behavior of doing a password change right when it detects an expired password (#436470)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2008-0164.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 67664

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2008-0164.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-0947

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-0062

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:krb5-workstation, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:krb5-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/19/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/5/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5901, CVE-2007-5971, CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063, CVE-2008-0947

BID: 26750, 28302, 28303

RHSA: 2008:0164